Redirecting email to iCloud problem(s)

Hi everyone,
I find now we have an iPad I pretty much only check our mail on it. The problem that creates is when we go onto the computer there are 100's of emails to delete. I figured an iCloud email account would be best so when we deleted the email on one device it would delete off the others (Iphone and Mac).
So I created an @me.com email address, and set up a rule to in Mail on my Mac to redirect any email sent to my old email address to my new @me.com account and then move it to trash. (it would be a pain to change my email address)
Now I get a 100's of copies of each email sent to me on all devices !! I read that because I'm redirecting from one mailbox to another in my inbox that is causing a looping problem.
So can anyone tell me a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do.
In summary :
Redirect emails from my old POP email account to my iCloud account
Delete the email from my old email address inbox afterwards.
Thanks very much
Doug

Thanks for your ideas.
I'm using "Mail" on the mac as my email program.
The rule I set up in Mail was : If any email to : [email protected] (my regular email address)
Perform the following functions : redirect message to [email protected]
I think the problem is both those mailboxes exist in my inbox. The reason I'd rather redirect the email than move it to the other account is I'd like to be able to see who the email was originally from.
As far my pop account settings I'm not really sure how to access those. My email knowledge is very limited (as I'm sure you can see)
Thanks
Doug

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